Smart handcuffs are provided herein as part of a personal-area-network (PAN) along with a method for operating the smart handcuffs and the PAN. During operation smart handcuffs will pair with a first PAN master device. An alarm will sound when no system identification (SSID) is detected by the handcuffs, when no SSID is detected by the handcuffs that matches SSIDs within an internal database, when the handcuffs have broken the pairing with the first PAN master device, and the handcuffs have not paired or are not pairing with a second PAN, or when the handcuffs have broken the pairing with the first PAN master device, and no update from the handcuffs has been received by the first master device that the handcuffs have paired or will pair with the second PAN.
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1. A device for preventing detained persons from escaping public-safety officers, the device comprising: handcuffs for securing a detained person; a transceiver integrated with the handcuffs and configured to scan for a first plurality of personal-area network (PAN) system identifications from a plurality of PANs; a database, stored in a computer-readable memory integrated with the handcuffs, comprising a plurality of permissible PAN system identifications; logic circuitry integrated with the handcuffs and configured to determine if any of the first plurality of PAN system identifications are within the plurality of permissible PAN system identifications stored in the database; and an alarm integrated with the handcuffs and configured to sound when no system identification is detected by the transceiver or when none of the first plurality of PAN system identifications detected by the transceiver are determined to be within the plurality of permissible PAN system identifications stored in the database.
2. The device of claim 1 wherein the transceiver comprises a Bluetooth transceiver.
3. The device of claim 1 wherein the first plurality of PAN system identifications comprise unique identifiers of various public-safety PANs.
4. The device of claim 1 wherein the system identification comprises a server set system identification (SSID).
5. The device of claim 1 , wherein the alarm is configured to sound when no system identification is detected by the transceiver.
6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the alarm is configured to sound when none of the first plurality of PAN system identifications detected by the transceiver are within the database.
7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the alarm is configured to refrain from sounding when one of the first plurality of PAN system identifications detected by the transceiver are within the plurality of permissible PAN system identifications stored in the database.
8. A system for preventing detained persons from escaping public-safety officers, the system comprising: handcuffs for securing a detained person, the handcuffs including: a transceiver integrated with the handcuffs and configured to scan for a first plurality of personal-area network (PAN) system identifications from a plurality of PANs; a database, stored in a computer-readable memory integrated with the handcuffs, comprising a plurality of permissible PAN system identifications; logic circuitry integrated with the handcuffs and configured to determine if any of the first plurality of PAN system identifications are within the plurality of permissible PAN system identifications stored in the database; and an alarm integrated with the handcuffs and configured to sound when no system identification is detected by the transceiver or when none of the first plurality of PAN system identifications detected by the transceiver are determined to be within the plurality of permissible PAN system identifications stored in the database; a master device member of one of the plurality of PANs having a particular system identifier matching one of the plurality of permissible PAN system identifications stored in the database, the master device further comprising: a first transceiver configured to pair with the handcuffs via the particular system identifier; logic circuitry configured to determine, via the first transceiver, that the handcuffs have broken the pairing; and an alarm configured to sound responsive to the determination that the handcuffs have broken the pairing.
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January 4, 2017
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